Java Engineer, Crypto Trading & Execution

The Bullish Group has built an ecosystem focused on developing financial services for the digital assets sector through technology and investment businesses. These include: Bullish Exchange - digital asset trading services that utilize central limit order matching and proprietary market making technology to deliver deep liquidity and tight spreads within a compliant framework. The business is licensed by the Hong Kong SFC, German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFIN), and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. Since its launch in November 2021, Bullish Exchange has surpassed US$1.1 trillion in total trading volume, with 2H 2024 volume exceeding US$2 billion per day. Bullish Capital - an investment company which offers strategic capital, industry expertise and an extensive network of resources to support initiatives that connect conventional finance with the revolutionary possibilities of the digital economy. CoinDesk - an award-winning media, events, indices and data business servicing the global crypto economy. 

Reports to:

Vice President, Engineering

At Bullish, we value collaboration, innovation, and a relentless pursuit of excellence.  Join our global team of passionate engineers dedicated to building a highly performant and highly available Exchange Trading System.  We pride ourselves on designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable software solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive our business forward.

Role Overview:

 As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing product features on highly performant micro-services and trading engines. You will excel in this role by utilizing your excellent problem-solving skills and ability to devise innovative solutions. Your proficiency in navigating ambiguity and thriving in a dynamic environment will be essential to your success. 

In addition, you will bring a collaborative mindset, working effectively with cross-functional teams, including risk management professionals and quantitative analysts, to understand business requirements and translate them into reliable and high-performance software systems.
   

Responsibilities:

• Design, Build, and Maintain: Create reusable, reliable and highly performant Java code that meets or exceeds our high standards.

• Problem Solving: Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise innovative solutions to overcome these challenges.

• Code Quality: Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation to ensure our systems are robust and scalable.

• Testing: Continuously identify functional/non-functional issues through building and maintaining test automation.

• Low Latency: Create reusable, reliable, scalable and low latency Java code at the core of the Exchange.

• Global Collaboration: Work as part of a dynamic, agile global team, including Engineering, Product and Project Management.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong proficiency in Java (ideally 17+) and experience with performance tuning and optimization.

• Experience designing systems with high throughput and low latency from the ground up.

• Hands-on familiarity with popular Java Frameworks such as Spring/Micronaut.

• Solid knowledge of testing methodologies, coding principles and coding standards.

• Well versed with standard SDLC practices and tooling around build, test, deploy etc.

• Experience with RESTful and websocket designs and frameworks.

• Good hands on git (github), Docker, Kubernetes, JIRA, Confluence.

• Good understanding of middleware such as Chronicle Queue, RabbitMQ, Aeron and Kafka.

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices.

• Hands on with a strong sense of ownership and drive.

• Computer Science or related degree.

Bonus Experience:

• Experience working on core trading functionality, such as order matching and orderbook generation

• Familiarity with financial derivative products, such as Options and Futures.

• Familiarity with blockchain technologies.

• Experience with FIX and related workflows.

• Familiarity with GCP.

• Financial services experience. 

Bullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are fast evolving and striving towards being a globally-diverse community. With integrity at our core, our success is driven by a talented team of individuals and the different perspectives they are encouraged to bring to work every day.